In the light (darkness?) of what just happened in the UK, and of what's happening in America with the whole election circus, and of what's happened a long time ago in Russia beginning with Lenin, hell, even before that, and of what continues to happen now under Putin, whenever I try to understand the global politics charade and voice what I think, my opinion proves highly unpopular. The "dangerous idealist" epithet at least has the word "dangerous" in it. Some other, more primitive names I was called include "seriously dumb" and "naive" and "typical woman," which comes full circle back to dumb, according to how women are viewed in our society, our value in our looks, not our brains, and our emotions dismissed as unnecessary drama.  Not that I presume to understand any of what is going on. I don't have enough information to form a decisive point of view, and the information I do have access to is the news has been pre-filtered for me by the media, and so hardly any truth remains there.